Here’s a selection from the archives – a little bit of everything from balloonists to tragic heroines, scandalous females and zebras ridden sidesaddle. I also wrote in detail about women and girls who rode in Britain and Ireland in If Wishes Were Horses: A Memoir of Equine Obsession.
- A risqué (and very popular) stage hit involving an actress in a bodysuit strapped to the back of a horse: Wild Horses Dragging You Away.
- A former missionary to lepers strikes a blow for womankind: Mrs Hayes and the Zebra.
- Exposed stockings and duelling menfolk: Alice Thornton: A Regency Lady Jockey.
- A very genteel lady steeplechaser: Dianas of the Chase.
- “DVD Extra” for If Wishes Were Horses’ 19th century chapter – quotations, photos: Jeunes Filles Bien Elévées.
- Women who defied the classic stereotype of Victorian invalid lady, a-fainting on the sofa: Para-Hunting.
- A intriguing and mysterious horsewoman of Paris: Who’s That Lady?
- Sidesaddle wardrobe malfunctions: How Should A Lady Dress?
- Anything men can do: Side-saddle Polo.
- Mrs Hayes goes to Germany: Riding in the Kaiser’s Berlin.
- Blanche Allarty-Molier performs the famous airs above ground: Flying Sidesaddle.
- The daring dressage riders of 19th century Europe: Jenny: NOT The Prix St Georges, and beautiful, tragic Emilie.
- Mrs Power O’Donoghue catches a maid trying on her riding gear: Upstairs, Downstairs.
- Sidesaddle as drag – in central London: Veiled Delusions.
- Madame Poitevin, a horse and a balloon: Equine Aviation Pioneers.